This site provides the most `suitable' location for future expansion of the settlement. It benefits from good access to existing services and facilities and Ormesby Bank forms a regular bus route connecting the site with Ormesby, Nunthorpe and Middlesbrough. The site is not identified as Greenfield in the Local Plan and delivery of the site will not compromise the identity of the settlement or the surrounding settlements. The site could be feasibly developed within a 5-15 year period with an average dwelling density of 30-50 dwellings per hectare.

Not identified as a site within the document. The site falls within the grounds of the existing development boundary of Normanby and is unallocated in the Local Plan. It is also of note that, given the proposal is entirely within the grounds of Normanby Hall, the site is considered as brownfield by definition of PPS3.

This is one of the smallest of the five sites and would provide small scale, higher density development, would not provide a significant opportunity to provide for the strategic requirements for lower density, executive housing in a high quality environment.

The SHLA states that the parts of the site proposed for development are `heavily wooded', with public footpaths `crossing' the site. The site is in fact regularly ploughed and these footpaths do not cross the area proposed for development. Power lines are also located around the edge of the site and are no longer present on the part of the site intended for development. The SNCI designated in the site's northern section in the adopted Local Plan should be reviewed as this area has been intensively farmed for a number of years and this designation is no longer appropriate. It is recognised that adjacent wildlife corridors exist beyond the site's eastern and southern boundaries.

Our clients would be willing to liaise with Northumbrian Water, subject to the land's allocation, on future water supply requirements.

In light of the above we would request that the SHLA be reviewed to take account of this assessment and allocate the site as a future housing development in order to ensure the soundness of the Communities DPD.

We feel that this site will be deliverable in the Local Development Framework plan period. The Greenfield, landscape and biodiversity constraints could be overcome by the positive benefits offered as part of an overall development package.

Our clients would object to the assessment in SHLA that the site is not developable, it is stated that the site attracted “Limited support due to constraints”. However, on close investigation, some of these alleged constraints are inaccurate and therefore unfounded.

The site represents the only realistic option available if the Council is serious about encouraging high quality development to attract entrepreneurs and professionals back into the Borough, stemming out-migration. Our clients would therefore strongly object to the assessment in the SHLA which implies that the site is unsuitable for any types of housing or development.

Access to the site would have to be taken from Flatts Lane which is likely to require significant improvement to facilitate development of this scale. The area of the site which is likely to be used for access is designated as a Site of Nature Conservation Importance, the remainder of the site is identified as a sensitive landscape area. Overall it is considered that the development of this site would not be in conformity with National, Regional and Local Planning Policy given the site's proximity to the existing settlement of Normanby and its physical separation by the A174.

More sizeable potential allocations and would provide more significant development opportunities in the range of 55-130 dwellings. Regarded as being potentially available and achievable, although not for executive housing. This site is considered to be less sequentially preferable in terms of flood risk than site 21.

Sport England do not believe that the site owner should be allowed to sit on the site long enough to extinguish its sporting past and that compliance with E4/E5 should be highlighted as a constraint to the sites development.

We consider that development of this site would not be detrimental to the local community and indeed consider that the site is not `open space' in as much as it is not designated as such. The College land is privately owned the majority of which is fenced off and has no public right of way. Adequate open space already exists adjacent to the site at South Park Wood on Flatts Lane and it is proposed that in accordance with the emerging options for open space provision as considered above, the need for specific facilities on or off-site would be assessed and implemented to benefit the wider local community.

More sizeable potential allocations and would provide more significant development opportunities in the range of 55-130 dwellings. This site is described as being `inaccessible' and therefore currently unsuitable and unavailable, it is regarded as providing developable future housing allocation. It is noted in the assessment that the site is currently landlocked, is a partial third party ownership and the reservoir still in place. It is therefore unclear why this site is regarded as being achievable for a range of house types but site 21 is not considered to be developable in any way. This site is not considered to be suitable for lower density, executive housing.

One of the smallest of the five sites and would provide small scale, higher density development. Whilst the site would appear likely to meet an established requirement for affordable housing it would not provide a significant opportunity to provide for the strategic requirements for lower density, executive housing in a high quality environment.